While Kraft, a Democrat, has repeatedly said he’s never supported Trump, Wu has cornered the son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft to take stronger action to defend himself.
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Battenfeld: Indignant Healey, Democrats blaming Trump for migrant arrests
After encouraging illegal migrants to come to Massachusetts for political reasons, then almost bankrupting the state supporting them, an indignant Maura Healey and other Democrats are blaming President Trump for spreading fear and intimidation in the immigrant community.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is putting out “guidance” to illegal immigrants about how they should deal with ICE, when her job is to protect actual citizens of Massachusetts.
“From arresting parents in front of their children to pulling people who present no public safety threat out of their cars in broad daylight, the aggressive ICE tactics we’re seeing across the Commonwealth do not protect the public and instead spread fear,” Campbell, who has had a meteoric rise from failed Boston mayoral candidate to AG, said. “In releasing this guidance, I strongly encourage everyone to inform themselves of their rights when they see immigration officers in their communities.”
Both Healey and Campbell are clearly siding with people who are in Massachusetts illegally, many of whom are felons or criminals.
This could come as a surprise to voters who supported them, and may explain why half of Bay State residents don’t approve of the way Healey is doing her job.
Healey – whose state has an order preventing police from assisting immigration authorities – is demanding information from ICE about the arrest of a Milford high school junior.
“Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions,” Healey said in a statement. “I’m demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why he was arrested, where he is and how his due process is being protected.”
It’s not a one way street, governor.
If you want ICE’s cooperation, then cooperate with ICE.
Why should ICE tell Healey’s office or police anything? They’re not obligated to inform the governor of anything.
But after getting a beating from Healey and other Democrats, ICE came out swinging on Monday.
“Sanctuary policies put us in a position to go out into communities and look for people,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Acting Director Patricia Hyde said at a press conference. “When jurisdictions don’t cooperate with ICE and we don’t arrest people, in custodial arrests, then we must go out into the community. And when we go out into the community and we find others who are unlawfully here, we are going to arrest them.”
Hyde and officials said they weren’t looking for the 18-year-old Milford student, but his father, who is still in hiding.
Why hasn’t the father surrendered to ICE? Why haven’t they filed for asylum before?
Those are good questions for Democrats now demanding ICE release the 18-year-old and others arrested in sweeps across Massachusetts.
Battenfeld: Probe of fatal bus crash should be swift and transparent
Mayor Michelle Wu’s “independent” investigation into the fatal bus accident in Hyde Park should be swift and totally transparent and include the city’s failed oversight of the bus vendor Transdev in order to ensure Boston kids are safe getting to school.
The investigation should not take until the end of Wu’s reelection campaign and should rise above politics in the interest of the public and parents.
Wu and BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper should already be taking action to shore up their own weak oversight of Transdev. And police need to immediately release the accident report, which has been kept under wraps.
But there are signs the fix is already in – the investigator, a white collar defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, has donated to several far-left Democrats and works for a politically connected law firm. And Wu has already determined it was the vendor’s fault and not her administration.
“There are protocols and this is a case where it looks like the responsibilities and obligations of the vendor were not held up,” Wu said last week.
Wu’s appointment of the investigator – Mintz Levin lawyer Natashia Tidwell – came just a week after the Herald and several city councilors called for an outside review of the crash.
Why did it take Wu so long to appoint an investigator in the April 28 accident that killed a 5-year-old Hyde Park boy, Lens Arthur Joseph?
It appears that she finally caved to political and public pressure because of the horrific nature of the crash and the fact that it was blowing back against her administration. Tidwell is charged with reviewing existing safety policies, the bus company’s performance, and making recommendations if more safety measures are needed.
“The public deserves a full understanding of how this could have happened and what changes are needed,” Wu said in a statement.
But will the public really get a “full understanding” of the accident if the investigation is focused on only Transdev and she has already absolved the School department of blame?
And why didn’t Wu appoint someone with no ties to Boston politics?
Tidwell has donated to a number of left-of-center Democratic pols, including Attorney General Andrea Campbell in 2022, 2021 and 2020, former Suffolk County DA Rachel Rollins, Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner and Plymouth County DA candidate Rahsaan Hall, records show.
Tidwell has not donated campaign money to Wu.
But Wu’s campaign has received more than $28,000 from Mintz Levin lawyers and employees, according to campaign finance records.
The Wu administration finally released more detailed information about the accident and the bus driver, Jean Charles, in a Friday news dump, and after nearly a month of silence, Transdev released a statement.
Charles had been involved in four incidents in the last two years, and hit a parked car during the day of the fatal accident, but kept driving against protocol.
It was previously reported that Charles’s certificate to drive the bus had expired in 2024, and he did not try to renew it.
Charles resigned his position after Transdev moved to terminate him.
Battenfeld: Buck stops with Mayor Wu on deadly bus accident
Wu can’t just point the finger at the bus vendor and the driver – she needs to take full accountability for the city’s needless delay in reporting details of the April 28 accident and appoint an independent investigator to oversee the deadly incident.